Nothing ever beats for me in UT 1).the "face" level in CTF and 2).all Assault mode
levels

I agree, I love most if not all CTF levels from the original UT a lot. Even just against bots those levels are very well designed. I can't say I've ever noticed any of those levels to be out of balance. Off course mostly because they are nearly exact mirrors of each team's side, so there's no advantage.

In my opinion that's how it should be with capture the flag.

the only reason i played ut for a while was bombing run. hell, that could have been such a great thing for a standalone game, but ut br was too slow and the maps too confusing.

and q4mp!=q3a, really. q4mp resembles more a ut game (slower running speed, different weapons with much different handling, even the rl looks like it's been beamed right out of ut) than q3a.
i only played q4 demo, though. for me, q2(sp) is still the best game of the series, followed by q3a.